Alicia Bell (pronouns: they/she) was born and raised in Charlotte and still lives there today. They work at the intersections of afrofuturist imagination, journalism, land, food, and all the spaces in between. At Free Press, they work to transform the future of journalism via News Voices, a project organizing communities around information equity and community centered journalism, and Media 2070, a project working towards making media reparations real. Alicia is also a parent, member of a local gardening collective called Angelou House, and a lover of big bodies of nature.